Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration: Scan, Price and Complete the Anniversary Set
30th Celebration is out, with 30 Pikachu Rare cards, special Mew cards and a Classic Collection of reprinted icons. Here’s what’s in the set and how to scan, price and track every card with EvoScan.
The Pokémon Trading Card Game turns 30, and 30th Celebration is the set that marks it. Released on 16 September 2026, it mixes brand-new cards with a Classic Collection of reprints from three decades of the game, so it’s a set that new collectors and long-time fans both want to open.
The EvoScan Pokémon card scanner supports 30th Celebration from release day. Scan the cards from your packs to see what you pulled and what it’s worth, add them to your collection and follow your progress toward the complete set.
What’s in 30th Celebration
The main set has 128 numbered cards and 161 cards in total once you count the secret rares. These are the parts collectors talk about most:
- Pikachu Rare: 30 different Pikachu cards, numbered 23 to 52, one of the main chase lines of the set.
- Double Rare ex cards: Pokémon ex such as Pikachu ex, Mewtwo ex, Mew ex, Umbreon ex, Gengar ex, Sylveon ex and Jirachi ex.
- Illustration Rares: full art versions of 18 Pokémon from the set, such as Moltres, Articuno, Zapdos, Lapras and Gholdengo.
- Special Illustration Rares: full art ex cards numbered 147 to 156, including Pikachu ex, Mewtwo ex, Mew ex and Gengar ex.
- Futuristic Rares: Mewtwo ex and Mew ex, numbered 157 and 158.
- Three special Mew cards printed with letters instead of a number: R/RGB, G/RGB and B/RGB.
30th Celebration in EvoScan: the red, blue and green Mew cards lead the set by a wide margin, followed by the Special Illustration Rare ex cards.
Next to the main set, 30th Celebration: Classic Collection reprints 30 famous cards from the history of the game. It starts with the original Charizard from Base Set and runs through Shining Celebi, Lugia, Dark Tyranitar, Palkia LV.X, Darkrai & Cresselia LEGEND, Rayquaza-EX, Greninja BREAK, Pikachu & Zekrom-GX, Mew VMAX and Arceus VSTAR. Each reprint keeps the number it had in its original set.
What You Need Before Getting Started
To scan your 30th Celebration cards, download the EvoScan Pokémon card scanner from the App Store. It’s free to download and works without an account, on iPhone and iPad with iOS 18 or later. If EvoScan is already installed, update it to the latest version from the App Store, so the new set is included. Allow camera access the first time you scan.
How To Scan Your 30th Celebration Cards
You can scan your cards with the camera as you open your packs, or upload photos of them from your photo library, for example pictures you took at a card shop or of a friend’s pulls. Follow these steps:
- Tap the scan button at the bottom of the dashboard to open the scanner.
- Hold a card with the whole card inside the yellow frame, and EvoScan detects it on its own. Or tap the photo button at the bottom left to pick a photo from your library.
- The card appears in the bottom corner with the running total of your pulls. Scan the next card the same way.
- Tap Organize to open your Scanned Cards. Check the number of copies of each card, and when a card comes in several variants, tap the variant under it and pick the one you pulled.
- Tap Add to Collection to save all your scanned cards at once.
Scanning a fresh pull: the Special Illustration Rare Pikachu ex, with its price shown right on the card.
Keep scanning card after card, and the total next to Organize grows with every pull. When the pack is done, tap Organize: the Scanned Cards screen shows the total value and the number of cards you’ve scanned, so you can see what the pack was worth before you add anything to your collection.
Scanned Cards: every card you scan, with its set, number, variant and price, plus the total value of the whole batch.
Remove any card you don’t want to keep, such as a duplicate you plan to trade, then tap Add to Collection to save the rest.
The special Mew cards scan too. They have no regular number, so EvoScan reads the letters printed at the bottom, R/RGB, G/RGB or B/RGB, to tell the three apart.
The red Mew R/RGB, identified by its letter number, with its price, the copies you own and its variants.
For a full guide to the scanner, including scanning from photos and what to do when a card isn’t recognized, see how to scan Pokémon cards with your iPhone.
The Special Mew Cards: the Set’s Biggest Chase
The three Mew cards printed in red, green and blue are by far the most valuable cards in 30th Celebration. In early November 2026, the market price of the red Mew R/RGB was $4,461.94, the blue Mew B/RGB $4,243.90 and the green Mew G/RGB $3,529.24. The next most valuable cards in the set, such as the Special Illustration Rare Mew ex and Gengar ex, were around $40 to $65.
Prices like these change quickly, so check them before you sell, trade or insure one of these cards. The Prices screen, opened from the card details, shows the market price and the lowest listed price for each variant and condition.
The Prices screen for Mew R/RGB: the market and low price of a raw, Near Mint Holofoil copy.
These prices are for raw cards in Near Mint condition. A graded copy can sell for much more, and a card with visible wear for less.
To learn how card prices work and how to check the value of your whole collection, read our guide on how to check the value of your Pokémon cards.
Scanning Classic Collection Reprints
The Classic Collection is the trickiest part of the set to identify, because each reprint copies its original card, number and copyright line included. The 30th Celebration Charizard and the 1999 Base Set Charizard are both card 4/102, and from the text alone they’re a perfect match for each other.
30th Celebration: Classic Collection in EvoScan, with reprints of Lugia, Charizard and Magikarp. Each one carries a small Pikachu stamp for the 30th anniversary.
The easiest way to tell a reprint from the original in your hands is that stamp: every Classic Collection card has a small 30th anniversary Pikachu printed on the artwork, which the original cards don’t have.
Since the October update, EvoScan doesn’t guess between a reprint and its original. When a scan matches several printings equally well, it asks “Which printing is it?” and shows them side by side, each with its image, set name, number and price, so you can tap the one you own.
Shining Celebi 106/105: the Neo Destiny original and the Classic Collection reprint, side by side in the scanner.
Picking the right printing matters for your collection value. In early November 2026, the original Shining Celebi from Neo Destiny was priced at $3,000.00, and its Classic Collection reprint at $24.32.
Track and Complete the Set
Both parts of the anniversary release are on the dashboard, under Mega Evolution: 30th Celebration and 30th Celebration: Classic Collection. Each is its own expansion, so you can track the 30 Classic Collection reprints separately from the 161 cards of the main set. Every expansion shows how many of its cards you own and your progress as a percentage, and you can switch between English and Japanese sets or show only the sets you’ve started collecting.
The dashboard: 30th Celebration and its Classic Collection side by side, each with your progress toward the complete set.
Open a set to see all of its cards. The top of the set screen, shown at the start of this article, gives the value of the cards you own from the set and how much of it you’ve collected, and a small badge on a card shows how many copies you have. You can search the set by name, number or artist, which makes it quick to find one of the 30 Pikachu Rare cards by its number.
Not every card needs a scan. If you know which card you pulled, touch and hold it on the set screen and choose Add to Collection, or Favorite to keep it close at hand. Choose Select to pick several cards and add them to your collection at once, which is the fastest way to log a whole pack.
Touch and hold any card in the set to add it to your collection or Favorites without opening it.
Tips for Collecting 30th Celebration
Scan your cards right after you open a pack, before you sleeve them. Bare cards scan fastest, and you see straight away which of your pulls are worth putting in a top loader.
Prices of a new set move a lot in the first weeks after release, as more packs are opened and the chase cards become clear. Check your best pulls again after a few weeks before you sell or trade them, and keep in mind that market prices assume a card in good condition.
With 30 Pikachu Rare cards in the set, it’s easy to lose track of which ones you already have. Check the set screen for the cards you’re still missing, and keep a short list of their numbers before a trade night.
Need Help or Have Feedback?
If a 30th Celebration card doesn’t scan, a price looks wrong, or you have ideas for tracking anniversary sets, you can always reach out through the contact page. Your feedback helps improve the Pokémon card scanner for every collector.
